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Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it

6 pointspaulpauper4 comments

This is really weird. Google requires everyone to make a youtube channel before they can use youtube. Everything has been going fine for years and now somehow my channel, which never had a video and I was not even aware existed, was terminated and now I cannot use youtube at all. Appealing failed. This make no sense. how can I lose my channel when I never used it? Is there anyway to recover my channel subscriptions or use youtube without the channel?

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My advice is to walk away, use the alternatives like FreeTube, Invidious, etc.

They don't work quite as well in my experience, but you don't have Daddy Google breathing down your neck.

Google doesn't care about you and will never scale their customer service solutions to address this issue, they won't even help people who lost access to their email accounts in any meaningful way.

> or use youtube without the channel?

log out

I will say they have made it increasingly difficult to do that.

Behind VPN? "Log in to confirm you're not a bot."

Someone says the f-word or talks about a no-no topic? (oh no!) "Age restricted video, log in to prove your age."

I find the second one especially hilarious, given that I see borderline porn in the shorts section when I'm not logged in with no browser data for it to drum content up from, and that same screen displays to kids when they pull up YouTube.

"For the children" is always a lie, but it's so funny when it's that obvious.

All that said, I don't quite trust it for some reason, but I've been sandboxing FreeTube and using that, seems to work well generally.

> Behind VPN? "Log in to confirm you're not a bot."

Disable it then.

> Someone says the f-word or talks about a no-no topic? (oh no!) "Age restricted video, log in to prove your age."

Saying fuck is not enough to make it age restricted, and logging in isn't enough to verify your age because they require either a face scan or credit card.

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